Dr Nicholas Horsfall was neminent philologist, commentator, and Vergil scholar. He was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Nicholas Horsfall went to Westminster School, Peterhouse, Cambridge and Corpus, Oxford.. He taught at University College London from 1971 to 1987 and then went to live in Italy, 1987-2000, where, as he put it ‘he taught on an irregular basis, and wrote a good deal’. He returned to the United Kingdom and in 2003 he moved from near Oxford to the northern Highlands of Scotland where he continued to write and publish extensively. Although his life was very rich in Scotland, he did still venture South of the Border now and then to attend conferences and give papers. In Hilary Term 2006, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls Oxford, and then, a few years later, he was made an Honorary Professor here at Durham. Nicholas Horsfall wrote widely and wonderfully on Roman literature and culture but it will be for his work on Vergil that he will be best remembered and most missed. He was internationally renowned for his acuity and wit as a scholar and in particular for his commentaries on various books of the ‘Aeneid’, including Book 7 (1995), Book 11 (2003), Book 3 (2006), Book 2 (2008) and Book 6 (2013).